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RyanShort1
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Yesterday I was flying with my boss (nice guy) and one of the sites we flew was near Lackland. My camera's currently broken, but he was kind enough to let me share this with ya'll.

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Photo by R. Kevin Butts Red Wing Aerial Photography

It was also fun sharing the sky with some F-16s.

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Oooooo, nice pic. They let you fly that low over Lackland?!? They didn't try to shoot you down?

I see you all still need rain too. Looks pretty dry.

Look! A Hustler, a Hustler, a Hustler...it's only a model...Shush!
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Unless there are two B-58s there that is on the Kelly side of the field.

29°22'59.18"N 98°33'36.70"W
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bdk wrote:
Unless there are two B-58s there that is on the Kelly side of the field.

29°22'59.18"N 98°33'36.70"W


Except Kelly doesn't technically exist anymore... We weren't too low - maybe 1,100' AGL.

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Wow, cool pic from above like that !

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I have pics of the whole fleet of them in the weeds at DM prior to being scrapped.
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I remember the B-58 parked at the 1966 50th Annv. Airshow at Kelly AFB...
Not to old, yet.... :roll:
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Don't suppose any of them do this any more!
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This one at the SAC Museum "Greased Lightning is a record holder: Tokyo to London in 8 hrs 35 min...
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Real tight in there for a decent picture of the beast. Too bad !

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Doesn't Lone Star have the one that was in Ft. Worth? How'd it fare surviving the hurricane last year? We sure miss it and the B-36 at Pima here in thier birthplace! I haven't seen any pictures of the Lone Star B-58 in a while.

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Lone Star's was a bit beat up. It stayed in the hangar but things hit it and it hit things...not too bad. There were some shots at the LSFM website during cleanup.
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CrewDawg wrote:
Doesn't Lone Star have the one that was in Ft. Worth? How'd it fare surviving the hurricane last year? We sure miss it and the B-36 at Pima here in thier birthplace! I haven't seen any pictures of the Lone Star B-58 in a while.


This photo is from 1999, but she looked good then!

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Hi All this was the Galveston example last year two weeks before Ike

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She looked as if you could you could fill her with fuel, do a pre flight and send her flying!
I do hope the people at LSMF ar getting on top of the damage to their colection.

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Here's the one from the Air Force Museum. I'll check when I get home to see if I have a good current photo of it inside the museum.
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DAYTON, Ohio -- Convair B-58 Hustler at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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